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LOT 1075
Byzantine Bronze Stamp Seal
5TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 in. (5.1 grams, 16 mm).
With knop handle and applied beaded wire collar, ellipsoid plaque with incuse image of two nimbate figures flanking a hatched panel and two bovines above; probably a Nativity scene with Mary and Joseph beside the manger in the stable with oxen.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1993.
Private collection, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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